Ryoanji Garden - the main attraction of the Japanese city of Kyoto . There is a peculiarly planned chaos of fifteen black rough stones scattered across the white sand. From whatever point the visitor considers the composition, the fifteenth stone is always out of his sight. The name of the book is symbolic. The author, an international journalist who worked at . Japan for many years, with a deep insight into the originality of Japanese life, tells about the system of lifelong employment, the specifics of social management, the position of women in society and the family and many other interesting social phenomena. And each time the reader is offered his own vision of the problem, his own key to the clartu with "Japanese secrets".